Nanded Express fire: Many died of suffocation
Anantapur (AP): A pall of gloom descended over Kothacheruvu, a sleepy village in Anantapur district where 26 passengers were killed today after an AC coach of Bangalore-Nanded train caught fire even as those who escaped
Anantapur (AP): A pall of gloom descended over Kothacheruvu, a sleepy village in Anantapur district where 26 passengers were killed today after an AC coach of Bangalore-Nanded train caught fire even as those who escaped the jaws of death recounted the travel horror.
65 passengers were travelling in the coach as fire broke out around 3.35 am between Sri Satya Sai Prashanti Nilayam and Basampalle stations on Bangalore division of South Western Railway when most of them were asleep. Though as many as 39 of them were lucky as they manage alight on time, some of them lost their loved ones on board.
Charan, a resident of Bangalore saved 20 other passengers from the bogie even as his wife and father-in-law could not escape, N Raghveera Reddy AP Minister for Agriculture who hails from the district said.
Ramamurthy, one of the passengers who escaped from the clutches of death, said he suddenly woke up as smoke and fire engulfed the compartment and tried to reach the door.
“I saw many people struggling to get down from the moving train through the door. After some time the train stopped,” said Ramamurthy from Mysore, who had boarded the train from Bangalore towards Mantralayam.
65 passengers were travelling in the coach as fire broke out around 3.35 am between Sri Satya Sai Prashanti Nilayam and Basampalle stations on Bangalore division of South Western Railway when most of them were asleep. Though as many as 39 of them were lucky as they manage alight on time, some of them lost their loved ones on board.
Charan, a resident of Bangalore saved 20 other passengers from the bogie even as his wife and father-in-law could not escape, N Raghveera Reddy AP Minister for Agriculture who hails from the district said.
Ramamurthy, one of the passengers who escaped from the clutches of death, said he suddenly woke up as smoke and fire engulfed the compartment and tried to reach the door.
“I saw many people struggling to get down from the moving train through the door. After some time the train stopped,” said Ramamurthy from Mysore, who had boarded the train from Bangalore towards Mantralayam.